As the Everyman in Cork marks 120 years, John Daly looks back at some of the milestones in its eventful history as a venue at the heart of the city’s cultural life

On a sunny evening recently my son and his housemates decided to have a barbecue in their back garden. 

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Kerry-born baritone Gavan Ring takes the title role in a much-anticipated production of ‘The Barber of Seville’, writes Cathy Desmond

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FC Progrès Niederkorn 0 Shamrock Rovers 0: Craig Hyland made two remarkable second-half saves at the Stade d’Oberkorn in Differdange, Luxembourg last night.

THE sixth Lismore Music Festival takes place at the weekend. It’s Ireland’s only summer opera festival, competing with the well-established English Glyndebourne and other mid-European events.

May seems to have become food and wine festival month. This weekend it is Wexford’s turn with a craft beer trail in the town tomorrow. Greenacres wine shop will be hosting wine tastings Saturday and Sunday.

She’s been in the news with her famous boyfriend, but Cork actress Sarah Greene deserves her profile very much for her own achievements, writes Ed Power

I’m a natural risk-taker.

Jo Kerrigan reveals why the pioneering Met: Live in HD has become a global phenomenon since it began back in 2006 and set a template for a whole new way of experiencing live entertainment. 

Venue: Mahon Omniplex (Met Live in HD)

Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, the New York Met — these have always been places for the theatre lover to imagine, but rarely experience.

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Lismore Music Festival had much to contend with at the weekend.

2008 Olympian Peter O’Leary and David Burrows of Ireland have won the first race of the day for the Star class in the BACARDI Miami Sailing Week (BMSW) presented by EFG Bank.

Any child born today will celebrate their birthday every four years. Margaret Neylon looks at the significance of emerging on Feb 29

For years the smell of pipe tobacco acted as a kind of GPS that told you you were in the vicinity of M&P O’Sullivan, the cosy tobacco shop on Academy St in Cork City.

Alex James has said classical music saved him when Blur were "disintegrating".

A ROBOTIC hand has been successfully connected to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, European scientists said yesterday.

OWEN GARVAN played a captain’s role by popping up four minutes into injury-time to seal a precious point for the Irish under-21 team against Switzerland at the RSC last night.

L’Aquila’s chief prosecutor today announced an investigation into allegations of shoddy construction as workers continued to scour the rubble for people still missing after a devastating earthquake five days ago.

Tournedos showed his liking for the twists and turns of the Roode as he claimed the totesport.com Chester City Wall Stakes for a second consecutive year today.

Bells pealed across Monaco as the tiny Riviera principality feted Prince Albert II’s rise to the throne today and bid a final symbolic farewell to his late father, Rainier III.

GRAND CENTRAL can put himself in line for a tilt at the Epsom Derby by landing the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died today, her doctor said. She was 82.

IF the proud mums of babies delivered yesterday wanted to know just how special a club their children had entered by virtue of being born on February 29, they only had to look at the glitz and glamour of last night’s Oscar ceremony in Hollywood.

Live chickens have been strangled during a performance at Bonn's opera house.

An original manuscript of the finale of Mozart’s best-loved opera, the Marriage of Figaro, today sold for more than £700,000 at auction.